Thankyou for detailing your experience of the Zone's - all I had to go on previously was details obtained talking to friends in the UK, but these being friends who have no idea about or interest in locks whatsoever, so even getting to the stage of working out that it was a 'yale-like' cylinder wasn't easy lol.
One thing that has surprised me, there is a lot of talk here at LP101 about locks meeting the appropriate BS standards for insurance purposes in the UK.
Yet, the people I speak to (who have no interest in locks) and ask about their locks seem to have door hardware which falls far short of what I understand is required to satisfy the insurance companies over there!
Is this often the case, as is my impression?
The insurance approved BS rated locks seem like a real challenge, I really look forward to getting my hands on a quality lever lock- all I see here in Australia are 2 or 3 lever junk, that I taught myself to pick, just by taking it apart to see how it works, before I was 12yo - hardly a lock at all.
However, I really look forward to learning to pick quality lever locks! No doubt it will provide me with many, countless hours of fascinating frustration & eventually reward. I'm sure it will require a great deal of patience, even with all the excellent help available on this forum!!
It does seem that there is still quite a range in difficulty between different brands and models these BS locks, but all of them seem very secure compared to most of what I see in residential doors here in Australia.
Such a shame so many of us in Aus and the US miss out on these locks for the most part. I guess it saves the average Aussie lockies a lot of money not having purchase the expensive pro-tools&decoders for these locks, though
Sorry for the thread-hijack,
Thanks again,
...Mark
